navPacker Fellows
The Barbara L. Packer Fellowship is named for Barbara Lee Packer (1947-2010), who taught with great distinction for thirty years in the UCLA English department. The fellowship is awarded to individuals engaged in scholarly research and writing related to the Transcendentalists in general, and most especially to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau.
| Fellowship | Affiliation | Position | Project | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| de Galzain | Alice | 2023-24 | Packer | University of Edinburgh | PhD candidate in English Literature | Recounting the Lives of Women Writers: Emerson on Fuller, Godwin on Wollstonecraft, and Sand on Sand |
| Finley | James | 2012-13 | Packer | University of New Hampshire | Ph.D. candidate | 'Violence done to nature': Free Soil and the Environment in Antebellum Antislavery Writing |
| Gallagher | Mark | 2018-19 | Packer | University of California, Los Angeles | Ph.D. candidate in English | 'In the Optative Mood’: Unitarian Optimism and the Transcendental Affects of Peabody, Parker, Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau |
| Gochberg | Reed | 2016-17 | Packer | Boston University | Ph.D. candidate | Novel Objects: Museums and Scientific Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century American Literature |
| O'Connor | Keegan | 2022-23 | Packer | Queen Mary University of London | PhD candidate in English and drama | Volatile Presences: The American Experience of Seventeenth-Century English Writing |
| Orr | Ittai | 2019-20 | Packer | Yale University | Ph.D. candidate in American studies | American Intelligences: Literature and the Science of the Mind, 1780-1870 |
| Osborne | Gillian | 2015-16 | Packer | University of California, Berkeley | postdoctoral | Henry David Thoreau and Antebellum Botany |
| Pacheco | Derek | 2013-14 | Packer | Purdue University | assistant professor | Transcendentalism and Children's Literature |
| Reed | Molly | 2017-18 | Packer | Cornell University | Ph.D. candidate in history | Ecology of Utopia |
| Wirzbicki | Peter | 2014-15 | Packer | University of Chicago | collegiate assistant professor, Harper/Schmidt Society of Fellows | Black Intellectuals, White Abolitionists, and Revolutionary Transcendentalists |
